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Oh puns...

personally, this shirt seems too corny for me to actually get. i know i'm totally cool because bowser is my homeboy. hmm.

on a side note, why can't we have video game references in most derbies now and yet a weekday print can stamp another mario shirt into the woot archives? just sayin'.

Helmet tilted to the side, trying to look cool.

Srry I just bought a medium! is there anyway to make it a large?

lethalpimp2998 wrote:Srry I just bought a medium! is there anyway to make it a large?

exercise

Stexe wrote:For those who don't get the reference, I'm pretty sure it is a mix between Bowser from the Mario series (obviously) and Radio Raheem from Spike Lee's film "Do The Right Thing."

At least that is what it reminds me of at first glance.

Wow. That took me way too long to get for having just watched the movie a week or two ago. Unless it was incredibly unintentional, that's exactly what it is.

(Mario/Luigi being the Italians, etc. etc.)

My first thought was...



... but this is of course a daily. Oh Woot, you and your mixed signals. I love you so!

And before anyone asks, yes that is a fake image.

The lighting seems wrong on the face but other than that it's a seriously nice illustration. Alex Solis has chops.

Banned or not, good Nintendo images always make me happy!

congratx Alex! Seen alot of your stuff printing lately - very nice!

This is wicked. Congrats Alex! In for one!

Oh man. If I see another Mario-themed shirt, I think I'm going to puke. Why, oh, why do these shirts keep coming out?

Can anybody tell me what a "b-boy" is? And would his parents be any happier if he worked a little harder to become an a-boy?

juzijuzi wrote:Can anybody tell me what a "b-boy" is? And would his parents be any happier if he worked a little harder to become an a-boy?

A b-boy is a "breakdancer". I think that Kool DJ Herc might coined the phrase in the 70's, but I don't remember off hand.

I would buy this so damn quickly if it weren't on grey ...

Ice Ice Baby!

colinm09 wrote:B-Boy Makin' with the Freak Freak!

If I knew it was going to be that kind of party, I would have stuck my d&@k in the mash potatoes

This reminds me that there are two main classes of woot tees:

1. video game references & otherwise obscure nerd (:P) pop culture references (sometimes with bunnies), and

2.bright/flashy/ramyb/etc. shirts -- sometimes with cute animals (which are sometimes bunnies).

wear it to the dance battle at the gaming convention!!!!

W00T u so funny!!!!

dampy wrote:exercise

haahahhaahahahaahahahaahahahaahahaa

I can hear this playing on the boombox.

odysseyroc wrote:Does he have an extra finger on his left hand?

Indeed he does. Fix'd (although Woot fixing it is slightly less likely). I hate it when artwork is done and obviously not qc'd.

Ummmmm I'm the original B-boy. And this shirt lacks color.

odysseyroc wrote:A b-boy is a "breakdancer". I think that Kool DJ Herc might coined the phrase in the 70's, but I don't remember off hand.

Let me drop some knowledge on ya like napalm!

Nice Name drop on Herc but no a B-Boy refers to Break, as is a Break Beat. Most of the break beats you really can't dance to all that well on your feet so they would get down and "Break Dance", but the term "breakdancer" was coined by the media and is not a term a b-boy would use. Real b-boys don't use it, and back in the day it was almost frowned upon by the originators.

Read "Can't Stop, Won't Stop" Its like the hip hop Bible. It's a good read.

Bboydrewtacular wrote:Let me drop some knowledge on ya like napalm!

Nice Name drop on Herc but no a B-Boy refers to Break, as is a Break Beat. Most of the break beats you really can't dance to all that well on your feet so they would get down and "Break Dance", but the term "breakdancer" was coined by the media and is not a term a b-boy would use. Real b-boys don't use it, and back in the day it was almost frowned upon by the originators.

Read "Can't Stop, Won't Stop" Its like the hip hop Bible. It's a good read.

Here you go,I was going from memory, but found it at b-boys.com

DJ Kool Herc coined the phrase "B-Boy" in 1969, when he performed at venues, such as the Hervalo in the Bronx, he would shout loudly "B-Boys go down!" and this was a cue for the dancers to go-off. Some suggest B-Boys stands for "Boogie Boy" while others insist it means "Break Boy" or "Bronx Boy".

I spent most of my life as a hard core hip-hop head from about 84 to the early 2000s. In the early 90's in LA there was a real resurgence in the culture, centered in LA at the "Hip-Hop Shop" on Melrose. I had a chance to learn some real history first hand from some of the pioneers. It was surreal to be soul clapping in a street cypher while hearing Grandmaster Cas and Prince Whipper Whip rap.

Man I hate paying the same for toddler shirts as I do for my own, but my son needs this, bad. Gonna break down some cardboard boxes and teach him the ancient ways of his people.

odysseyroc wrote:I spent most of my life as a hard core hip-hop head from about 84 to the early 2000s. In the early 90's in LA there was a real resurgence in the culture, centered in LA at the "Hip-Hop Shop" on Melrose. I had a chance to learn some real history first hand from some of the pioneers. It was surreal to be soul clapping in a street cypher while hearing Grandmaster Cas and Prince Whipper Whip rap.

I thought you were saying the Herc used the term "breakdancer"....

Bboydrewtacular wrote:I thought you were saying the Herc used the term "breakdancer"....

naw, just explaining that b-boy was a breakdancer.

Bboydrewtacular wrote: Read "Can't Stop, Won't Stop" Its like the hip hop Bible. It's a good read.

That's on my list of books to pick up. I recently got Martha Cooper's "Hip-Hop Files" but have only thumbed through the pictures and used a few as reference for a couple of drawings.

odysseyroc wrote:That's on my list of books to pick up. I recently got Martha Cooper's "Hip-Hop Files" but have only thumbed through the pictures and used a few as reference for a couple of drawings.

Yea it's funny my brother who goes to UIC (IL in Chicago) had to read it for a class. I saw him carrying it and im like ummmm.... I got owned by woot!?!

He has NO interest in hip hop and he said he still enjoyed the book and learned a lot. It's sad what "hip hop" has become. Its dead.

Yay, another Super Mario reference, to go with the 172 other woots in my closet.


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I remember this one from Threadless ^^. It's a great design from a true master. Excellent! Im am really surprised this isn't sold out yet. Maybe later today, buwahahaa!

Felicidades Alex!!!

Congratulations, Alex!

Great copy today. Usually the "product description" for Woot shirts is basically a mere description of what's on the shirt. What I like about this is that it's not just retelling the illustration -- it's taking it somewhere new.

Stexe wrote:Fight the Flower Power.

Fixed

what was the coupon code for the april 1st code?

i voted on this and already ordered one
trying to tell myself not to order another one for my SMB package i plan to sell and trying not to get one too small


but i know ill rock this shirt for many years to come

kinda goes with my tat too ;)



most others ive seen online arent all too great, though there are a few that arent bad

i still like mine

I'm surprised this hasn't sold out yet.

Bboydrewtacular wrote:
He has NO interest in hip hop and he said he still enjoyed the book and learned a lot. It's sad what "hip hop" has become. Its dead.

Whoa whoa. Hip hop isn't dead. it's a subgenre of rap, just as crunk and gangsta rap and trip hop and various other thing are. hip hop is still alive and well. you won't hear it on the radio because, as nas says, 'i cant sound smart or y'all will run away.... heinous crimes sell more records than creative rhymes'. old school converse? even bowser is rockin hip hop. it's far from dead my friend.

apologies for the lack of relevance to today's shirt.

anodynepariah wrote:Whoa whoa. Hip hop isn't dead. it's a subgenre of rap, just as crunk and gangsta rap and trip hop and various other thing are. hip hop is still alive and well. you won't hear it on the radio because, as nas says, 'i cant sound smart or y'all will run away.... heinous crimes sell more records than creative rhymes'. old school converse? even bowser is rockin hip hop. it's far from dead my friend.

apologies for the lack of relevance to today's shirt.

Hip-Hop isn't a subgenre of rap. It's a culture, consisting of Rapping, DJ'ing, Graffiti writing and B-boying. It's been on the decline since about '95 or so. It's not dead, but it's definitely gone underground.